# We're all going to the Gulag Archipeligo. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 19, 2015, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292 "2015-08-19T22:17:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/21 "2015-08-20T13:00:37Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > “It’s a book.” > > Say what you will, in any other Internet forum that response would have read… > > “Crack a book, you uncultured heathen!” Just sayin’, **Malden Capell** , you do us all proud! I believe it’s time for an illiterati reference. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/22 "2015-08-20T13:05:00Z")
Freemasons are okay now? ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/23 "2015-08-20T13:25:11Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > Maybe he won his race to the bottom. Bernie is accused of engaging in competitive events on Craigslist M4M? ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/24 "2015-08-20T13:43:12Z")
But do you say “ark-i-PEL-a-joe” or “ark-i-pe-LAH-go” That’s the test for uncultured heathens. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/25 "2015-08-20T14:20:23Z")
Wait, let me see if I have this right, the people who have houses, boats, or daughters will have them confiscated, and anyone who doesn’t have one of those three items will be sent to the gulag? Is that it? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/26 "2015-08-20T14:26:48Z")
See kids? This is what happens when you drink the bong water. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/27 "2015-08-20T14:37:36Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > That could be practically anybody. Could you give us a hint; initials, maybe? The comment about a comb makes me think that it’s Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/28 "2015-08-20T14:41:20Z")
And a blintz in every pot! ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/29 "2015-08-20T14:42:30Z")
> [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](#): > > The comment about a comb makes me think that it’s Trump. Why would Trump need a comb? He just sends his out to the groomers. ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/30 "2015-08-20T15:18:37Z")
Don’t worry: it’s just a name. It’s actually an atoll. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/31 "2015-08-20T15:36:10Z")
> [@Merneith](#): > > Why would Trump need a comb? He just sends his out to the groomers. Exobiologists, actually. That thing ain’t from the planet Earth, y’know. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/32 "2015-08-20T15:43:03Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > This is the second time today I saw the word “gulag” in the midst of a bizarre and incoherent rant, but from a different poster. > > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18615524&postcount=99](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18615524&postcount=99) > > What kind of weird zeitgeist is this? Or is this a basic sock situation? Usually, when this happens, it is because someone used the word on Fox News and the trogs start repeating it everywhere. Sometimes they even use it right, but not often. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/33 "2015-08-20T15:44:29Z")
> [@Double\_Foolscap](#): > > Don’t worry: it’s just a name. > > It’s actually an atoll. Sorry. You typoed that. It’s actually a troll. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/34 "2015-08-20T17:10:12Z")
> [@race\_to\_the\_bottom](#): > > The American people were duped by a socialist who fantasized about rape … As long as he keeps his blini to himself, I don’t care about the content of his fantasies. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/35 "2015-08-20T17:14:26Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Wait. I don’t own an Armani suit and I don’t need a comb. My initials are EM. > > But I’m not a socialist but a real double-dyed Communist! Everybody knows that EM=C[sup]2[/sup] If you were a REAL dyed in the wool communist, you’d know it’s E/M=C[sup]2[/sup]. I suspect you are just a socialist poser trying to get on the OPs good side…whatever that might be. Won’t work…you too will be going to the Gulag Archipelago! (or get tossed down into the quarry I suppose, this being the SDMB) ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/36 "2015-08-20T17:36:17Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > We do not have a forum for incoherence, but rants go in The BBQ Pit. > > Off with you. Hilarious! :D:D:D ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/37 "2015-08-20T18:24:31Z")
> [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](#): > > The comment about a comb makes me think that it’s Trump. Der Donald probably has at least one Armani suit though. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/38 "2015-08-20T18:26:55Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > Der Donald probably has at least one Armani suit though. too restrained. I’d bet on something with solid-gold buttons and fly zipper. ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/39 "2015-08-20T18:35:23Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > Freemasons are okay now? They’re collaborators. Along with their offshoot, The Shriners, they are responsible for transporting the rest of us to the gulag. The Masons actually do the bulk of the transportation… because the Shriners have such tiny cars. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292/40 "2015-08-20T18:42:49Z")
> [@August\_West](#): > > But do you say “ark-i-PEL-a-joe” or “ark-i-pe-LAH-go” > > That’s the test for uncultured heathens. It’s pronounced Archie Pellago. I know because I used to work with him. A good comrade and a friend of the proletariat. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-all-going-to-the-gulag-archipeligo/728292.md?page=3)